Can you boost a Offenhauser tri-power setup?
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I think the easiest to tune setup would be to build a single pressure box around all three carbs, and then get your linkage set right. But it is going to be a hassle to tune.
Now if it was a fuel injected setup, you could have a single throttle body feed the three holes in the offy, with an injector mounted on each of the three pipes.
Now if it was a fuel injected setup, you could have a single throttle body feed the three holes in the offy, with an injector mounted on each of the three pipes.
I would think the boost would be forcing the outer carbs open on a progressive setup and making it act like a synchronous setup instead.
I believe you could set it all up to be synchronous, but I could only image the headache of tuning both a boosted application as well as a synchronous. How would you even be able to measure the flow through each carb while it's boosted?
Ultimately, is it possible? Sure, anythings possible. Would it be worth it? Not for me anyway.
I believe you could set it all up to be synchronous, but I could only image the headache of tuning both a boosted application as well as a synchronous. How would you even be able to measure the flow through each carb while it's boosted?
Ultimately, is it possible? Sure, anythings possible. Would it be worth it? Not for me anyway.
Howdy,
Are you old enough to remember 1960? This was on the cover of a 1960 Hot Rod Magazine.
It is a Paxton Centrifugal Supercharger, but you get the idea - as Tuck-n-rool said "ANYTHING is possible!"
Keep thinking
Dennis
Are you old enough to remember 1960? This was on the cover of a 1960 Hot Rod Magazine.
It is a Paxton Centrifugal Supercharger, but you get the idea - as Tuck-n-rool said "ANYTHING is possible!"
Keep thinking
Dennis
i would think that the flow through each carb would be the same if there's pressure within the systemtucknroll":2kt44mxi said:
you've got 5PSI anywhere in the system, whether it be immediately after the SC, or at the inlet of the first carb, or the third, you'd just have to make sure they all have the same CFM
there might be minute variations due to heat loss, but i wouldn't think it would be that bad, and an intercooler should negate most of those
there's probably plenty of literature on this if you read the right book, adding FI to a multi-carb setup is nothing new
I'd like to see someone use the Offy tri-power intake but use 3 x 1bbl throttle bodies.
That would be fun.
That would be fun.
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